FOREIGN-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

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Wuxi Municipal Commission for Foreign Trade and Economic cooperation   Its functions are to study and formulate the city's overall policies on foreign economic cooperation and foreign trade and its development strategies; to strengthen the macro-control of the foreign trade and economic cooperation and its development; to draft the scientific industrial management methods, regulations and systems; to strengthen the management, service, organization and coordination as well as monitoring and examination on the sector; to strengthen the auditing, legal work and state assets management on its directly subordinating enterprises; to weaken the direct management on these enterprises and entitle them with their legal rights; to separate administration with management and weaken the management on these enterprises' financial plans, investment plans, their import and export production system, etc. 12-15/4 Jiankang Road, Wuxi World Trade Center 0510-2721822
Wuxi Municipal Planning Commission   Its major tasks and focus are to strengthen the formulation, organization and monitoring on the implementation of the city's overall national economic and social development strategies, mid and long-term plans and important policies and regulations; to comprehensively coordinate various economic levers and measures; to better arrange the balance of finance, credit and loans and capitals as well as the local finance; to strengthen the study and formulation of industrial policies, key economic structures and the layout of productive forces and to organize its implementation; to strengthen the management on the overall social fixed assets investment so as to ensure the construction of key projects; to forecast and monitor the development and operation status of the national economy and social development; to attach great importance to the incubation and construction of the market system; to promote the implementation of the strategies of the sustainable economic development and enhance the coordinated development of economy and the society; to simplify the planned targets of various kinds regarding the production, construction, circulation, distribution and social undertakings, etc; to reduce the actual quantitative targets; to delegate, transfer and weaken the functions which can be independently managed by the enterprises and social institutions, departments, districts, the county level cities and the city on according to market regulation. 634 Jiefang Road (S), Wuxi 0510-2701224
Wuxi Municipal Economic Commission   Its functions are to strengthen the macro economic control and comprehensive coordination in accordance with the requirement of the socialist market economic development; to weaken the functions which should be regulated by the market and managed by the enterprises themselves so as to achieve its functional change. To shift from the focus on managing the enterprises' micro economic activities to the overall guidance and control on the industries; to put forward the overall strategies, development plans, policies and measures on industrial economic development; to study the industrial structure, scientific achievement, etc; to achieve comprehensive balance and macro economic control. To shift the focus from the direct intervention in the economic operation with the planned means to the macro measures of comprehensive study , analysis, monitoring and forecasting; to offer services to all the enterprises, departments and areas through market regulated economic operation. To shift from the direct management with administrative means to the indirect management through economic, legal measures, or policies, information, consulting services as well as the necessary administrative means. 634 Jiefang Road (S), Wuxi 0510-2706219
Wuxi Municipal Construction Commission   According to the state promulgated industrial policies on construction, real estate and civil engineering, the commission should formulate the development strategies, mid and long-term plans and implementation methods in the sectors of the whole city and to promote the reform and development of the sectors. Its tasks are to comprehensively coordinate and offer services during the construction process of provincial or State key projects; to check and examine the project construction, urban construction, village and town construction and the legal construction in the sectors; to speed up the modernization construction of the city and enhance the balanced development of the city and the countryside; to develop the construction markets, real estate markets and standardize the market behavior; to guide and promote the urban residential area construction; to study and formulate and implement the policies concerning the construction of housing for civil servants and low-income families; to weaken the planned management, reduce approval procedures and return the autonomy of management to enterprises, etc. 8 Xixin Street, Wuxi 0510-2722229
Wuxi Municipal Foreign Affairs Office
The major functions of the office are to execute and implement the foreign policies and regulations set by the Central government and the instructions and decision from the municipal CPC Committee and the Government on foreign affairs and foreign related work; to put forward suggestions on formulating the local foreign affairs rules and regulations; to coordinate the importance foreign affairs and related activities; to help introducing foreign investment and talents through the diplomatic channels; to be in charge of, or in cooperation with other departments for the arrangements and reception of state guests, party guests and other VIPs; to carry out overall planing for the external activities of the municipal leaders from the CPC Committee, the People's Congress, the Government, the CPPCC; to guide the protocol work of all departments and units in the city; to arrange and manage these departments' exchange activities with foreign embassies and consulates in China; to receive and manage people from foreign embassies and consulates who are on business trips in Wuxi; to handle negotiations with embassies and consulates; to receive and manage foreign correspondents who are in the city for news coverage; to manage the permanent news organizations or reporters in the city according to related regulations; to examine and approve the non economic or trade friendly exchange activities carried out by non-governmental self-supporting people from countries who have established diplomatic relations with China or from Hong Kong and Macao; to examine and check the non economic or trade activities at public expense carried by foreign officials or by foreigners from non-diplomatic relationship countries; to handle the invitation grant for visits to China by foreigners in the form of letters or telefax; to be responsible for the initial examination of the outbound business or economic and trade trips by related departments; to implement the outbound visits of municipal leaders from the CPC Committee, the People's Congress, the Government and CPPCC; to be in charge of the completion of formalities for passport and visa applications for local people and groups going on business or official trips abroad; to manage the exchange activities between the city and its sister cities in foreign countries and with other friendly entities; to formulate, examine and approve the exchange plans in between the sister cities; to guide the foreign affairs and exchanges between the people; to manage the non-governmental groups' external exchange activities and guide or help other departments to deal with related foreign affairs according to rules and regulations; to handle other work delegated by the municipal or higher level foreign affairs departments.
8 JingKui Road(s),Wuxi 0510-5012879
Wuxi Overseas Chinese Affairs Office   The functions of the office are to strengthen the services for economic construction; to give full play to the advantages of overseas Chinese affairs and help introduce foreign or overseas investment, technology and talents and strengthen the work on Hong Kong and Macao affairs covering the management and publicity work on Hong Kong and Macao compatriots and their families according to the regulations from the State Council; to collaborate with other departments and start the work on Taiwan through the overseas Chinese channels; to carry out, implement the "Rights Protection Law on Returned Overseas Chinese and Their Families" of the PRC; to strengthen the coordinated services on the overseas Chinese invested enterprises. 1-3 Qianxixi Road, Wuxi 0510-2708605
Wuxi Finance Bureau   The major functions are to strengthen macro control; to organize the completion of the city's financial revenue and expenditure according to the State financial policies; to actively participate in the decision making of the city's macro economic development; to formulate the financial development strategies and distribution policies and organize the social financial balance; to sort out the distribution relation; to carry out the separated taxation financial management system so as to motivate the county level cities, the districts and the city; to reform and standardize the budget management system and improve the financial function; to strengthen the budget control; to implement the tax regulations, financial and accounting system of the State so as to create a fair competition condition for all kinds of enterprises; to expand the financial transaction fields and to greatly expand the emerging wealth sources from non state-owned sectors, individuals and the tertiary sectors; to manage state bonds and collect capital for the construction of the country; to well manage state assets, prevent the loss of these assets and ensure the value protection and addition of the state assets; to strengthen financial supervision; to further control the purchasing power of social groups and give full play to the local finance. 8 Shipi Road, Wuxi 0510-2709704
Wuxi Industry and Commerce Administration Its major responsibilities are to reform the enterprise registration management system and gradually shifting from the existing establishment system through examination and approval to the registration system through legal approval by the industrial and commercial administrative organization to expand the supervision and management ranges by shifting from the supervision over farmers' markets or that of industrial products to the supervision over all kinds of markets to forcefully standardize the market behavior and protect fair competition to upgrade management levels by carrying out macro supervision management through the means of law and administration 77 Jiankang Road, Wuxi 0510-2701201
Wuxi State Taxation Bureau   The responsibilities of the bureau are to execute and implement the various taxation laws, administrative rules and regulations and formulate detailed implementation methods according to the city's actual situation; to be in charge of the compiling, distribution, implementation and examination on the various State tax income plans and legally levy the taxes and fulfill all the tax income targets; to promote the management on tax levy and actively strengthen the execution of taxation levy practice of the country; to be in charge of the tax collection management on all the taxes to be collected by the State Taxation authority; to supervise the tax paying units' implementation situation in accordance with the State taxation laws and regulations and strictly deal with cases of tax evasion and cheating to be in charge of the hearings, reconsideration and lawsuits regarding administrative punishment and strengthen the legal construction on taxation to give full play to the taxation control and supervision on economy and offer services to developing the socialist market economy and all social undertakings to supervise and check the state taxation departments of various levels and their employees on their performance in the execution of state taxation rules and regulation to be responsible for the management of all the state taxation departments' salary, human resources, etc, and be in charge of the management of all its leaders, civil servants, their training, etc. to be responsible for the disciplinary inspection, anti corruption and other related work to be in charge of the tax accounting, statistics and fund management in the state taxation departments in the city to organize tax publicity and carry out policy study and offer consulting services to execute all the related work delegated from the municipal government and CPC committee and the provincial or State Taxation Bureau 828 Jiefang Road (E) 0510-2700628
Wuxi Local Taxation Bureau   The functions of the bureau are to motivate all the local taxation departments of the city to implement the various taxation policies, rules and regulations stipulated by the city, the province and the State; to strengthen the regulatory functions during the execution of the national industrial policies and the optimization of economic structure; to study and formulate implementation plans on the provincial or State local taxation rules and regulations; to consolidate the taxation management and establish the tax levy system suitable to the city; to upgrade the tax levy levels and ensure the completion and steady growth in the local tax collection and promote the local economic development; to strengthen the taxation law publicity and arouse people's awareness for tax payment; to further supervision over tax payment and prevent the loss of the paid tax; to create favorable tax payment environment for the economic development of the city and provide professional guidance to the city's (county-level cities) local taxation bureaus. 108 Xinsheng Road, Wuxi 0510-2750017
Wuxi Municipal Urban Planning Bureau   The tasks of the bureau are to strengthen the construction of the modern metropolitan in accordance with the State Council's decision of "Concentrating the uniformed planning and management of urban planning"; to sort out the management system of urban planning; to strengthen the supervision over urban planning; to strengthen the modernized (information) management of urban planning and consolidate the professional management on designing, planning and survey. 8 Xixin Street, Wuxi 0510-2715627
Wuxi Municipal Environmental Protection Agency   The tasks of the agency are to strengthen the macro control and supervision over environmental protection; to formulate and implement the development strategies of the city's environmental protection; to improve the macro control system mechanism between environmental protection and the coordinated development of the city's economy and social undertakings; to consolidate the comprehensive collaboration work; to strengthen the legal construction for environmental protection; to execute supervision; to strengthen the industrial pollution treatment and protect the urban and ecological environment; to promote the scientific progress of environmental protection; to strengthen the publicity on environmental protection; to consolidate the cooperation and exchanges with domestic and international environmental protection departments. 58 Caozhangxincun, Wuxi 0510-5017931
Wuxi Labor Bureau   The functions of the bureau are to shift the focus from managing the labor affairs of state owned enterprise to managing the comprehensive labor situation of the whole society; to organize and establish uniformed, open and orderly labor markets; to achieve the rational distribution of labor using comprehensive economic and legal means; to focus on the macro management of forecasting, planning and regulation; to strengthen the guidance, supervision and services for the society; to strengthen the construction of labor market establishment, the management of total salary volume; to further reform the social insurance system; to comprehensively manage the city's safe production standard, labor monitoring, regulating of labor relationship and to deal with arbitration over labor disputes; to delegate the decision making power of internal structure setup, distribution, employee flow, wage treatment back to enterprises; to gradually abolish the compulsory wage planning. 7 Xinsheng Road, Wuxi 0510-5015481
Wuxi Tourism Administration Its major tasks are to gradually establish the management system for the tourism sectors and promote the sustainable, fast and healthy development of the city's tourism; to delegate back to the social institutions and enterprises the power that should belong to them; to shift from micro management to macro control; to strengthen the monitoring over state assets; to strengthen the overall control, management, supervision and services over the tourism sector; to promote the study of tourism development strategies; to strengthen the legal construction and coordination function over the sector; to strictly standardize the sector's service and enrich tourist information; to consolidate service functions and quality control and protect the legal rights of tourists. 7 Xinsheng Road, Wuxi 0510-2704314

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